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10 July 2008 2:02 PM, PDT | From avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news

One of the major pitfalls of the everything-is-connected ensemble drama is that filmmakers get so caught up in how the various character and plot strands intertwine that they forget to account for why. By the end of Garden Party, Jason Freeland's dismal roundelay of Hollywood outsiders, the five or so major players have all met and all played some role in each other's lives. Then the movie ends, raising the question, "What the hell was that all about?" Freeland constructed the film out of a handful of short stories he'd written, and that's reflected in the narrow, particular journeys of Hollywood's young and lost. But taken together, these stories are a symphony of inconsequentiality, drained of tension and purpose until all that remains is a vague sense of collective ennui. Best known for her season-three turn as Mischa Barton's conniving little sister on The Oc, Willa Holland brings.

Scott Tobias

1 article from 2008